A leading health policy expert, Professor Reinhardt has served on a number of government commissions and advisory boards, among them the Physician Payment Review Commission (now MedPAC) on which he served three consecutive three-year terms, the National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ, formerly AHCPR), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,  the National Council on Health Care Technology of the then U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and the Special Medical Advisory Group of the Veterans Administration.
 
Professor Reinhardt is a member of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, serving on its Governing Council from 1979 to 1982. He is past president and a Distinguished Fellow of the Association of Health Services Research on whose Board he served for over a decade. He is a director of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
 
Professor Reinhardt has also served on the External Advisory Panel for Health, Nutrition and Population of The World Bank, and is a trustee of both Duke University and the Duke University Health System.  Professor Reinhardt is a senior associate of the University of Cambridge, England.
 
Professor Reinhardt is a member of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. He is also on the Board of Advisors of the National institute of Health Care Management, a Washington-based think tank devoted to issues in managed care.
 
Professor Reinhardt has been or is a member of numerous editorial boards, among them The New England Journal of Medicine, The Journal of the American Medical Association, Health Affairs, the Journal of Health economics, and the Milbank Memorial Quarterly.
 
Professor Reinhardt received his Ph.D. in economics from Yale University.

Topics

● Healthcare in the New Millenium: Challenges and Opportunities
● Providing Access to Health Care and Controlling Its Costs
● What Percentage of Its GNP Should a Nation Spend on Health Care?
● Does Spending on Health Care Impair the International Competitiveness
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